CHARLESTON, S.C. ? Most of the undecided voters who flocked here Saturday for a forum with five of the GOP candidates for president walked away with their minds still not made up.
That included former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott, who co-hosted the event with the South Carolina Republican Party.
Continue ReadingBut that wasn?t due to a lack of enthusiasm, Huckabee said, declaring he ?would be proud to stand up on the stage and gleefully support? any of the five candidates who came.
However, as those candidates look to elbow each other out of the way in the week before the Jan. 21 primary here, they had to comply with one simple rule at the event: No attacking or even mentioning any other Republican candidate.
Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum all complied. The only one who didn?t: Newt Gingrich, who paid the price in boos as soon as he mentioned Romney?s name in an answer defending his critique of Bain Capital.
Citing a steel mill in Georgetown, S.C., that was closed under Bain?s leadership, Gingrich said, ?Capital wasn?t put at risk ? capital was drained out of the economy. Gov. Romney can go ahead and say we made 100,000 jobs ?? before being interrupted by the crowd?s loud disapproval.
Gingrich tried to jump in, saying he was ?trying to answer this question. I believe that it?s fair to ask that the record be clear.?
Gingrich pressed on, telling the audience he thought ?a question about a particular company is not the same as attacking capitalism.?
The event, taped here in front of several hundred people at the College of Charleston and set to air Saturday night on Fox News, came just one week before the state?s primary and drew every remaining candidate except Ron Paul. Huckabee said he?d made the invitation several times, but Paul?s campaign had declined to attend in favor of campaigning in Nevada.
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